About

Hannah LeClair is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Her research on literature and visual culture focuses on realism's visual rhetorics, and her current project studies landscape, setting, and the afterlife of picturesque aesthetics in the nineteenth-century novel. At Ursinus, she teaches courses that introduce students to the study of literature and literary method, including topics in global literature, education and the novel, and literature and the environment. Previously, she was an instructor at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania.

Hannah has presented her research both regionally and internationally. In 2023-2024, her work was supported by a Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences. At Penn, she served as a coordinator for Theorizing, the Comparative Literature Program's colloquium series, and Intensive, a graduate reading group. Recently, she co-coordinated the Penn English Department’s Restoration-Victorian Studies Graduate Working Group (ResVic), programming a lecture series, leading workshops, and convening discussion groups.

After receiving her B.A. from Bard College, Hannah spent several years working in secondary education in Limousin, France and Burlington, Vermont. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, and will obtain her doctoral degree in 2024.